Posted on 07/03/2013 7:57:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The IRS official at the center of the targeting controversy will testify before the House oversght committee as long as she gets full immunity from prosecution, one of her lawyers said yesterday.
Lois Lerner, the former head of the exempt section of the IRS that targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny, took the fifth at her previous appearance before the committee right after she declared her innocence.
Republicans on the committee say that her statement of innocence meant that she waived her fifth amendment right to self incrimination and she should testify willingly.
From Politico:
"They can obtain her testimony tomorrow by doing it the easy way ... immunity," William W. Taylor III said in a phone interview. "That's the way to resolve all of this." The comments reflect the hard-line approach Lerner, the former head of the IRS division that scrutinized conservative groups, and her legal team are taking in defending her role in the agency's scandal."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Give her immunity, she takes the blame, the Republicans press her, and Obama gives her a pardon.
No one sees this coming.
Jail? no, her crimes against the Republic need death as punishment. Those who follow nust be put on notice...... screw with the Republic and you die
Arrogant, lying b*tch.
Lois Lerner, the IRS official who set off the controversy, has said that she first learned of the BOLO list in June 2011, and that she ordered the partisan criteria to be removed immediately.
A misfired email from a U.S. Internal Revenue Service employee in Cincinnati alerted a number of Washington IRS officials that extra scrutiny was being placed on conservative groups in July 2010, a year earlier than previously acknowledged, according to interviews with IRS workers by congressional investigators.
Refer it to the FBI for criminal charges...oh...yeah.
It would be great to know who gave her the marching orders. If she lies under the immunity umbrella she’s looking at perjury. Might have to give up a little fish to get bigger ones.
Absolutely...Ms. Lerner wants to give a carefully rehearsed version of “the truth” that is aimed at shifting blame away from herself and the White House. Too bad we don’t have a special prosecutor in this case, and it’s equally shameful that we have a politicized FBI that is “investigating.” I’m guessing there has been lots of back-door communications between Ms. Lerner, her superiors at the IRS and White House political operatives in recent weeks, to coordinate the story and ensure that potentially damaging evidence disappears.
Lerner needs to lead the parade of current and former IRS officials who will be going to jail.
Since Lerner has failed to make a proffer, the author is probably right, she has little to offer. But the committee is not without ammunition either. Besides the possible violations of laws cited, once the element of conspiracy is introduced any number of possible laws might have been broken. Lerner and lawyers must be very wary of this element because it is highly unlikely that she acted alone and the point of the investigation from a political point of view is to determine with whom it was she collaborated-or conspired.
But, but she didn’t do anything wrong. She said so.
Agree - This woman has been involved in many nefarious deeds as a stealth bureaucrat. No gallows are high enough for such traitorous dogs.
This is the best summer I’ve had since I was a kid! If everything was going fine, they’d just be quiet. Democrats squirming like worms. I wonder if the outside money has been withdrawn?
Not if shes been getting paid as a staffer for the irs
Either shes a criminal and needs to not have a job w the govt. or she is not one and must testify
But she cant work for us and be an active criminal outside of the justice system
The sheer lack of logic is what is so frightening with these horrible people from amthony weiner to the first lady to marco stupid rivio
Rubio
” Im guessing there has been lots of back-door communications between Ms. Lerner, her superiors at the IRS and White House political operatives in recent weeks, to coordinate the story and ensure that potentially damaging evidence disappears.”
Call up the NSA, They’ve been sucking up all communications on everyone.... They know,see,hear all.
Ooops sorry, I guess that won’t work. Wrong team
No dice! She’ll take the deal and LIE on the record to cover for everyone knowing fully that her deal protects her from perjury.
These are my thoughts exactly. And, the terms of the immunity should apply only to crimes that she describes in testimony. All the skulduggery dealing with her tenure at the IRS that she withholds should still be liable against her.
Agreed. If her information brings down the Administration, give it to her!!
“Lois Lerner wants full immunity for her testimony”
If it were up to me, Lois baby, not only would you not get immunity, you would be brought in in leg irons.
Who has the right to fire this person? They should fire her ASAP with no severance pay! She willingly went along with unlawful bias that resulted in harm...is she union? The should sack her also.
The right approach here is to demand she pony up a proffer as a precondition of immunity. A proffer is a non-incriminatory statement, usually made through a lawyer, of what the witness is prepared to say under oath.
If she then lies under oath, breaking her proffer, the immunity deal becomes null and void.
Do we know how many times she visited the White Hut? I saw it asked on another FR thread in May but with no answer.
She sure is a POS.
Unless she is willing to accept credit for providing THE testimony to remove the Fraud from office asap, I say NO DEAL.
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